Cultural Responsiveness and Diversity Resources

BEMIDJI AREA

Truth and Reconciliation Initiative | Cross-cultural effort in the Bemidji area to promote truth-seeking, healing and change with an initial focus on increasing understanding and building relationships among indigenous and non-indigenous communities.

Speak Up at SchoolUseful guide for teachers and administrators and includes a pdf of a pocket guide for students.

Speak Up at School Pocket Guide​A pdf that makes 2 copies of a handy guide with a few tips for interrupting, questioning, educating and joining with other "upstanders" when hearing demeaning words.

2016 State of Students of Color and American Indian Students ReportIn this document, the Minnesota Education Equity Partnership offers the historical facts, ideas, data, promising efforts, and recommendations as "an invitation to deep reflection and discussion on how Minnesota can claim and re-design our schools and colleges to be places where our society succeeds by affirming and unleashing the beauty, the power and the genius of American Indian, African American, Latino, Asian American, and immigrant students."

American Indians in Children's LiteratureThe content of the website is designed to help people develop a critical stance when evaluating American Indians in children books. This means recognizing negative and positive stereotypes, both of which stand in the way of seeing and accepting American Indians as people of the present day.

COMMUNITY ORGANIZING FOR NONVIOLENT RESPONSE

​Training for Change ToolsHelpful tools in the areas of Diversity & Anti-Oppression; Team Building; Organizing and Strategy; Meeting Facilitation and Better Trainings; Nonviolent Action; Third-party Nonviolent Intervention and more ​

New Jim Crow Law Organizing HandbookExcellent resource on community organizing for sustainable change. From The Veterans of Hope Project, a multifaceted educational initiative on religion, culture, and participatory democracy. They encourage a healing-centered approach to community-building that recognizes the inter-connectedness of spirit, creativity, and citizenship. Their educational materials are designed to support reconciliation, nonviolence, and an appreciation for the value of indigenous and folk wisdom for contemporary times.​